Errata to 2006 Red Book®

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2006 Red Book® Errata 4/11/07 PDF

• Page iv: The following individuals were omitted from the list of Collaborators:
  
  • Meg Fisher, MD, The Children’s Hospital at Monmouth Medical Center,
    Long Branch, NJ
    
  • John A. D. Leake, MD, MPH, Division of Infectious Diseases, Children’s Hospital
    and Health Center, San Diego, CA
    
  • Jason Sauberan, PharmD, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, University of
    California, San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, CA
  
  
• Page 102: The third complete sentence: Because antimicrobial agents and
  the antimalarial drug mefloquine (but not chloroquine) can inhibit the
  growth of the vaccine strain of S typhi, the orally administered vaccine
  should be given at least 24 hours before or after administration of any
  of these agents should be omitted and replaced with Mefloquine or chloroquine
  may be administered simultaneously with oral Ty21a vaccine. The
  Precautions and Contraindications section in Salmonella Infections on page 584
  contains the correct information.
  
  
• Page 221: Under Treatment: second paragraph, third sentence: the last word should
  be changed from caspofungin to itraconazole.
  
  
• Page 250: Under Diagnostic Tests, eleventh sentence: 70°C (94°F) should be changed
  to -70°C (-94°F).
  
  
• ***New Errata 4/11/07: Page 270: Under Treatment, in the third sentence, the dosage of fluconazole should be changed from 100 mg/kg per day to 10 mg/kg per day.
  
  
• Page 410: Under Chemoprophylaxis: An Alternative Method of Protecting Children
  Against Influenza, last sentence of first paragraph: Zanamivir is not approved for
  chemoprophylaxis should be omitted and replaced with Zanamivir is approved
  for chemoprophylaxis of influenza in people 5 years of age and older. Table
  3.28 on page 404 contains the correct information.
  
  
• Page 579: Under Recent administration of IG, last sentence: Table 3.33, page 446
  should read Table 3.32, page 445.
  
  
• Page 682: Under Tuberculin Testing, third paragraph, first sentence: A TST can
  be administered at the same time as immunizations, including live-virus
  vaccines, except measles vaccine, which temporarily can suppress tuberculin
  reactivity should be omitted and replaced with A TST can be administered
  at the same time as inactive and live-virus vaccines, including measles
  vaccine. Page 37, in Active Immunization, under Tuberculin Testing, and Page 450,
  in the Measles chapter, under Precautions and Indications, Tuberculosis, contain
  the correct information regarding administration of a TST and measles vaccine.
  
  
  
• Page 837: Under Chlamydial Ophthalmia, the third sentence: If erythromycin or
  tetracycline ointment is applied to the conjunctival surface within 1 hour
  of delivery, the chance of developing chlamydial conjunctivitis is rare
  should be omitted and replaced with Neonatal ocular prophylaxis with silver
  nitrate solution or erythromycin ointment for prevention of gonococcal
  ophthalmia does not prevent perinatal transmission of C trachomatis
  from mother to infant. Page 256, under Neonatal Chlamydial Conjunctivitis,
  contains the correct information.
  
  
• Inactive Web Addresses Throughout: Before publication of the Red Book, each Web
  URL was verified. Since publication of the Red Book, some Web links may have
  changed, may have been discontinued, or are being updated.